On Feb 12, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Kevin M. wrote: > To be clear, SNL presently likes to book the top of the charts. In > their day as counterculture revolutionaries, they enjoyed booking > equally obscure bands. It was, in fact, one of the reasons they were > noticed early on. Looking at my DVD box sets, Art Garfunkel, ABBA, > Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, Eddie Money, and Meat Loaf would > be the only performers from the first three seasons that I would > consider mainstream (others who were on would eventually find their > way to pop culture, but at the time they appeared, they seemed to be > going out of their respective ways to avoid the pop scene... even > ABBA'a appearance somewhat predates the height of disco).
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